The Sermon on the Mount
An Invitation to Receive and Advance the Reign of God—Then, Across Time, and Now
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
This book provides the essential meaning of the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, how these teachings spoke directly to Jesus' listeners, and then moves directly to how these teachings of Jesus have relevance for people today. The context of the teaching in Israel/Palestine is provided with an introduction to the life and mission of Jesus. The Sermon on the Mount is identified as the life calling of the Christian and the way that a contemporary reader can sense and learn the will of God. There are examples of how Jesus taught the teachings of the Sermon to assist people in applying these universal teachings not only to their personal lives but also to their setting with layered governments such as the Roman and Jewish and how the teachings speak to issues of social justice, poverty, and illness. Included in the book are those who shared with Jesus the mission of assisting people to the identification of the pathway to life lived in the presence of God.
Endorsements (4)
“In Blood Brothers, Abuna Elias Chacour took us on a journey of love in the face of oppression that was geographical, historical and personal. In The Sermon on The Mount, written in the cave of pandemic, Abuna invites to go even deeper by leading us out and into the blessings given on the Mount of Beatitudes. Chacour exposes his core ethic to us—a costly grace, born of deep introspection. His timely teaching gives us examples of hope, and shows us the ways we can, together, face the urgent global reality of the need for the brave, sacred, Christ-filled bonds of true peacemaking.”
“What are a Christian’s credentials? For Elias Chacour they are the nine Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount. This book is more about self-examination than about examining three chapters in Matthew. It challenges us to consider our prayer and fasting, to think about our confrontations with scribes and Pharisees. Above all, it asks, do we live like we truly believe that every human being is created in the image of God and worthy of dignity and respect?”
“If the Sermon on the Mount is the life program of the Christian and the Beatitudes our credentials, Chacour’s faithfulness as a disciple of Christ gives him ample room to challenge his readers and reflect on the Sermon on the Mount as a practice of daily living. Readers will find themselves newly invited to live more and more into the call of Jesus through his most central teaching and Chacour’s witness as ‘living stone.’”
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